Favorite Movie Villain Song

[allenT]

Cat's dont Dance.

Many Sweeney Todd movie songs!

Shrek 2:

[irresponsiblepics]

I've a few obvious ones

Lesser known ones I like

[allenT]

Yeah Oogie Boogie (forgot that!)

[irresponsiblepics]

Probably my fave from the film is this (side villains)

[irresponsiblepics]

How could I forget THE legend

[irresponsiblepics]

aaand!

[NickRowler]

Hellfire. Probably my favorite Disney song.

While not a movie, I do like Orochimaru's theme

[abigaillmartin]

Yes!! Hellfire!!! Claude Frollo is one of my favorite villains ever!

[Ghost_Queen]

I have always been a fan of villian songs! There's so much to choose from but since I can't decide I will leave my top three.

Honestly I don't know if he can be considered a villian but he can make a good song.

I love all the songs from the movie but this one for some reason is my favorite.

And we gotta love some good manipulation in the form of a song.

[VibrantFox]

There's really only so many movie villain themes that have stuck with me but this was the first to come to mind

[ladyofthedarkwoods]

Yesss, this song was in my head 24/7 when I was a kid lol One of my fav childhood movies.
I also love Scars villain song in the Lion King, I always thought Disney villains have the best songs

[stiatent]

Im always the worst at one fave to rule them all
Prolly a ton from the Final Fantasy games including
FF8 Edea's theme and Ultimecia Castle theme, Ff9 Garland and Kuja Theme, and FF7 sephiroth's One Winged Angel
Mbison theme From Street Fighter Alpha 3 , vader imperial march too

Had Ogre's tekken 3 Bgm stuck in my head the otherday so wld go with that:

[sartinjacqueline05]

I sing along to this evertime I watched it.

[powerplantanimations]

Santi-U is so great. Bad Dog is another cool one where it sounds like a metaphor for primitive people ascending.

Also... wow... haven't caught up on Macross for a while (I stopped at Zero and never went past that). Kinda wished they kept the Sharon Apple incident alone since Plus was supposed to be a small movie and nothing more. Wish they'd brought Yoko back to do the soundtrack too. Like this sounds fine, but what hooked me on the original was the mellow hypnotic sounds (with Information High being the only one where Sharon was cutting loose).

@NickRowler Was listening to Hellfire like all Christmas. Really wish they don't do a live action film on this one. I dunno if this song (or this plotline) would be included lmao.

[aqua03]

Surprised no one's mentioned anything from Little Shop of Horrors yet. Audrey II's songs (and the music in general) is a banger.

[powerplantanimations]

Funny how this is the only Oscar Song that swears.

[aqua03]

First Villain Song nominated for the Oscars as well.

Still love the giant Audrey II puppet just vibing in the background of this preformance.

[HGohwell]

Also... wow... haven't caught up on Macross for a while (I stopped at Zero and never went past that). Kinda wished they kept the Sharon Apple incident alone since Plus was supposed to be a small movie and nothing more. Wish they'd brought Yoko back to do the soundtrack too. Like this sounds fine, but what hooked me on the original was the mellow hypnotic sounds (with Information High being the only one where Sharon was cutting loose).

I totally get wishing they'd left it as a one off but it was pretty cool to see Delta going acknowledging a lot of the pervious series happened within the same universe without it coming off as just pandering to nostalgia. Especially because something like Sharon would have a big impact within the universe and Delta in general was a really interesting commentary on the evolution on how they use music within the series and how music has become a military weapon, even if it's in the good guys hands. I think the closest we get with the later series is the continued return of Do You Remember Love, but that makes sense given the evolution of music tastes in the world in general. Macross is 40 now it can't stay static with its music. And I think, while not a villain song per say, the unreleased Song of the Stars (which is a really interesting take on music as a weapon through everything vibrates with energy and if you sing on the same frequency you can alter the universe) is probably closest to that vibe.

The music through this is really interesting and complicated, they had a big job trying to both contrast the good side (using the same singers and trying to produce a totally different sound) and also trying to make it sound like it's evolving as they hear more of the main singers singing. How well it worked is personal taste but it was interesting to see them try. Starting with this one, that has an unreleased version just for the movie and trailer that starts as a synthesized voice growing into this version as she hears people singing. And you can actually hear through the trailers that go main group, dark group, main group, the difference in styles they're going for.

Then Diva In Abyss above and then in Beautiful Flowers Have Poison.

Which is a super fascinating evolution through the songs. And I'm sorry for that being a ramble but I am a big fan of over analysing music and the intent behind it.

[powerplantanimations]

I think what made Sharon Apple so cool to me was that you can put on her music in a car and no one would question whether her songs are from an anime or not (mostly because of the english). I feel like the songs here you can tell it's from an anime on the spot. Not saying that's a bad thing, I just think Plus was experimenting a little more.

There's this person on YouTube who remixes Sharon Apple's music and he's like a DJ in the west. The samples work perfectly.

If I were to change a thing about this, I'd just western the idols up like Sharon (that movie was directed by the Cowboy Bebop guy so you know he loves his western media lmao).

I like the last one though.

[HGohwell]

I think that depend on what you consider experimental. The music was certainly going for a different vibe, but basically every series of Macross does that. They want all their series to have a different sound.Pot wise Macross Delta's main run was considered too far from the franchise conventions by a lot of fans for how much it pushed things. I think, while I love Plus, it's sometimes held up as weirdly experimental and out there when really, while it was at the time an experiment, it's hardly the most ground breakingly unique piece of work ever or in the Macross franchise.

And I wouldn't be sure about things like westernising them anymore. Glow In The Dark was already almost entirely in English, as were several Walkure songs, and several Frontier songs, and I'd be wary of the idea that Japanese songs mean you can tell they're anime songs given "anime songs" these days run a massive specturm of genres and are more and more often written and produced by the same people who're writing producing and singing Japanese main stream songss or we're going to fall into all English songs are Disney territory.

Although, maybe I just don't care because I don't care what people think of my taste in music enough to care if they think it's anime or music or not whether it is or not.

For instance there's also Carol's absolute banger of a "I'm going to destroy the world because Daddy Issues" song, which is another of my all time favourites

And Mikua's "you keep getting hurt saving the world so I'll destroy the world" song

Both from the same anime and both have regular spots on my playlists and I would never describe them as "anime songs" as a genre and share them with non-anime people as unashamedly as the ones above.